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Caroling at the White House with the Seven Forbidden Words

Protestors sing for Trump’s impeachment

December 25, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Some three dozen people gathered across the street from the White House a few days before Christmas to sing carols to President Donald Trump. A dozen were dressed in the red cloaks of the handmaidens from The Handmaid’s Tale. Their signs evoked recent events, such as the seven forbidden words. Others wore the ...

Caroling at the White House with the Seven Forbidden Words

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State Retirement Reform

Lifting Up Best Practices

December 24, 2017 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

In only six years, from 2011 to 2017: 40 states proposed bipartisan retirement reform to provide private-sector workers retirement coverage; 9 states enacted retirement reform; and 2 states have programs up and running. Since Trump's inauguration, 22 states proposed reform and Vermont signed it into law. In the 9 states that enacted plans, 3.5 ...

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Gray is Beautiful Revisited

On the Politics of Sex and the Crisis of Democracy at Home and Abroad

December 23, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This week I am returning to my appreciation of the color gray, a theme I promised to explore regularly here, which unfortunately I have only returned to occasionally, and not recently. I am returning to the theme on this the darkest of days -- I started writing this during the winter solstice ...

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Poland’s Growing Authoritarianism

On Facing the Implications of Recent Events

December 22, 2017 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

In order to restore real justice, unlike the EU-enforced one, there are no holds barred; and just because something is written in law doesn’t mean it’s just. It doesn’t even matter that some of these laws were created during the previous 2005-2007 PiS-led government or that they were signed by ...

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Santa Claus Brings the 1% a Tax Bill

Did the GOP leave something under your tree? Probably not.

December 22, 2017 • by John Lawrence

Not that the outcome was ever in doubt. As I have written before, tax cuts – especially for the wealthy and corporations – are the sine qua non of Republican governance: the essential reason the circus that is the Trump-McConnell-Ryan Express rolled into town. Unlike efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, ...

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The Republican Tax Bill

How to Murder Higher Education

December 22, 2017 • by Srishti Yadav

Higher education in the US, in general, has a particular structure. Universities have considerable tuition -- often higher than $30,000 per annum. Masters students usually receive some measure of a tuition waiver, and PhD and post-doctoral candidates often receive full or significant tuition waivers along with a stipend. These tuition ...

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#MeToo and the Massage Envy Scandal

Looking Back and Beyond

December 21, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Nearly thirty years later, Massage Envy, the largest massage franchise in the world, has been hit with 180 charges of sexual assault and prosecuting attorney Adam Horovitz sounded a similar note: “An inordinate amount of people are attracted to massage therapy because of sexual interest … there’s opportunity in the ...

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From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond

December 21, 2017 • by Nancy Fraser

At first sight, today’s crisis appears to be political. Its most spectacular expression is right here, in the United States: Donald Trump -- his election, his presidency, and the contention surrounding it. But there is no shortage of analogues elsewhere: the UK’s Brexit debacle; the waning legitimacy of the European ...

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To a Revolutionary Degree

Power to the PhDs

December 20, 2017 • by John Paulas

The catastrophic state of early career employment in faculty roles for PhDs is nothing less than a moral issue that must be addressed with some major changes that we, as PhDs, must work to effect. These changes must prepare PhDs for work broadly conceived, rather than hewing to the current ...

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The Politics of Sex at Universities

Cases can be closed by firing faculty, but conversations shouldn’t be

December 20, 2017 • by Claire Potter

In the past several years, the wave of sexual harassment revelations that have hit educational, along with media, corporate, political, and athletic, institutions has claimed our attention over and over. Readers of Public Seminar know that the New School has not been exempt from the spotlight trained on private behavior that has ...

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When Title IX Hits Home

Addressing Our Troubles

December 20, 2017 • by Andrew Arato

As I see it, there are two dimensions of the problem and they should be separated. First, as it is clear now, problems of harassment, as well as apparently improper intimate relationships have existed at the New School as well as other institutions of higher learning. How bad the problems ...

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Offshoring

Reassessing the Rhetoric of Ineluctability

December 19, 2017 • by Sabine Pitteloud

Such rhetoric explains the increased use of offshoring since the 1990s — and the changes in employment that it has engendered — by referencing the changing economic environment. One decisive change that is almost always mentioned when this is discussed is the increased integration of markets around the world: markets ...